- [Skip Connections](Skip%20Connections.md) across individual layers - Conditionally - Soft gates - Learn vs carry - Gradients propagate further - Inspired by [LSTM](../../RNN/LSTM.md) [RNN](../../RNN/RNN.md)s ![highway-vs-residual](../../../../img/highway-vs-residual.png) ![skip-connections 1](../../../../img/skip-connections%201.png)